LE

There's no actual "structure" to the Army's system of rank... It's more a sort of "your badges look prettier and seems more important than mine so I'll follow your orders"...

This system, of course, falls down when "normal" Officers/NCO's face regiments like the Paras, Marines or certain units of the RAF who have that extra, pretty little badge or two that makes them vastly superior to anyone without said badge, (as it rightly should be). Then there can be problems when the "un-badged" try to tell the "pretty badged" that they should salute or show respect to them.

So, in short, the Army rank structure is... "flexible".. there, that's a good word.. flexible in the face of superior men, women and, in some cases, children...

LE

My name was read out by the clerk and I had to go sit in the jury box. I didn’t get excused by the judge or the prosecution; even the defense attorney had no objection to me so I had to sit at a sex offense trial. At least it was quick and over in one day. We found the guilty bastard er.. guilty.

LE

That's the Army rank structure, but of course, when it comes to pretty and not-so-pretty badges, you also have to consider the support arms of the Army, some of whom also sport badges, or 'tramp stamps' as they are unkindly known.

Ranks as follows:

Madam
Pimp
Ho
Sl@g
Munter
Hippocrocodillopig

Adam Smith - 1776 said:

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.